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2022 Utah Code
Title 26 - Utah Health Code
Chapter 2 - Utah Vital Statistics Act
- Section 1 - Short title.
- Section 2 - Definitions.
- Section 3 - Department duties and authority.
- Section 4 - Content and form of certificates and reports.
- Section 5 - Birth certificates -- Execution and registration requirements.
- Section 5.5 - Requirement to obtain parents' social security numbers.
- Section 6 - Foundling certificates.
- Section 7 - Correction of errors or omissions in vital records -- Conflicting birth and foundling certificates -- Rulemaking.
- Section 8 - Birth certificates -- Delayed registration.
- Section 9 - Birth certificates -- Petition for issuance of delayed certificate -- Court procedure.
- Section 10 - Supplementary certificate of birth.
- Section 11 - Name or sex change -- Registration of court order and amendment of birth certificate.
- Section 12.5 - Certified copies of birth certificates -- Fees credited to Children's Account.
- Section 12.6 - Fee waived for certified copy of birth certificate.
- Section 13 - Certificate of death -- Execution and registration requirements -- Information provided to lieutenant governor.
- Section 14 - Fetal death certificate -- Filing and registration requirements.
- Section 14.1 - Certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth.
- Section 14.2 - Delayed registration of birth resulting in stillbirth.
- Section 14.3 - Certificate of early term stillbirth.
- Section 15 - Petition for establishment of unregistered birth or death -- Court procedure.
- Section 16 - Certificate of death -- Duties of a custodial funeral service director, an agent of a funeral service director, or a dispositioner -- Medical certification -- Records of funeral service director or dispositioner -- Information filed with local registrar -- Unlawful signing of certificate of death.
- Section 17 - Certificate of death -- Registration prerequisite to interment -- Burial-transit permits -- Procedure where body donated under anatomical gift law -- Permit for disinterment.
- Section 18 - Interments -- Duties of sexton or person in charge -- Record of interments -- Information filed with local registrar.
- Section 18.5 - Rendering a dead body unavailable for postmortem investigation.
- Section 19 - Rules of department for transmittal of certificates and keeping of records by local registrar.
- Section 21 - Local registrars authorized to issue certified copies of records.
- Section 22 - Inspection of vital records.
- Section 23 - Records required to be kept by health care institutions -- Information filed with local registrar and department.
- Section 24 - Marriage licenses -- Execution and filing requirements.
- Section 25 - Divorce or adoption -- Duty of court clerk to file certificates or reports.
- Section 26 - Certified copies of vital records -- Preparation by state and local registrars -- Evidentiary value.
- Section 27 - Identifying birth certificates of missing persons -- Procedures.
- Section 28 - Birth certificate for foreign adoptees.
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